Tintagel dragon jug

Tintagel dragon jug

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Tintagel dragon jug - 5¾" (146 mm) high.

Kathleen Everard and P Cunningham Qvam set up the Tintagel Pottery in
1948 at Bossiney Court a few hundred yards up the road from Tintagel Castle,
thought to be the home of King Arthur.

Early Tintagel label

The pottery produced earthenware pots with Celtic designs redolent of
the Arthurian period. In 1951 Enid Mutton started work at the pottery. Leonard
Knight was a potter at Tintagel Pottery in the early days, but left to set up Knight's Tintagel, a rival pottery
in the village.

On the deaths of Everard and Qvam which occurred in quick succession
in the early 1970s Enid took over the pottery and still runs it with her
partner, Roger Howard. Roger is the thrower and Enid the decorator, assisted
by Teresa Anderson who has been with them since 1973. There is no selling
staff - visitors can buy straight from the potters, and retail outlets send
in their orders on a regular basis without the assistance of sales reps.

The style of Tintagel is firmly established and easily recognized. The
familiar colours are produced by recipes that Enid keeps a closely guarded
secret. Tintagel is a bright, clean and tidy pottery using two electric
kilns and there are weekly firings. Production is down to a fine art and
mishaps hardly ever happen. Roger also produces studio pieces in stoneware,
but these are not distributed to retail outlets; they are available only
to callers at the pottery.

Enid is often asked about marks used by the pottery, but doesn't remember
dates of changes. Various square stamps have been used, sometimes the name
was brushed in black, and in the 1950s and 60s the marks were incised by
hand with a dead ballpoint pen.

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